Birthrates of Galactic millisecond pulsars and their low-mass X-ray binary precursors

1991 ◽  
Vol 366 ◽  
pp. L27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Tavani
Keyword(s):  
Millisecond Pulsars ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Low Mass

scholarly journals Super-Eddington Accretion in the Formation of Low-Mass X-ray Binaries and Millisecond Pulsars

1997 ◽  
Vol 163 ◽  
pp. 828-829 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. F. Webbink ◽  
V. Kalogera
Keyword(s):  
Mass Transfer ◽  
Initial Phase ◽  
Transfer Rate ◽  
Birth Rate ◽  
Mass Transfer Rate ◽  
Millisecond Pulsars ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Low Mass ◽  
Orbital Periods ◽  
X Ray Binaries

AbstractConsiderations of donor star stability, age, and mass transfer rate show that low-mass X-ray binaries and binary millisecond pulsars with orbital periods longer than a few days must have survived an initial phase of super-Eddington mass transfer. We review the physical arguments leading to this conclusion, and examine its implications for the apparent discrepancy between the death rate for low-mass X-ray binaries and the birth rate of binary millisecond pulsars.

scholarly journals A decade of transitional millisecond pulsars

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (S337) ◽  
pp. 47-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amruta Jaodand ◽  
Jason W. T. Hessels ◽  
Anne Archibald
Keyword(s):  
Neutron Stars ◽  
Millisecond Pulsar ◽  
Physical Processes ◽  
Recycling Process ◽  
Millisecond Pulsars ◽  
X Ray ◽  
System A ◽  
Multi Wavelength ◽  
Low Mass

AbstractTransitional millisecond pulsars (tMSPs), which are systems that harbor a pulsar in the throes of the recycling process, have emerged as a new source class since the discovery of the first such system a decade ago. These systems switch between accretion-powered low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) and rotation-powered radio millisecond pulsar (RMSP) states, and provide exciting avenues to understand the physical processes that spin-up neutron stars to millisecond periods. During the last decade, three tMSPs, as well as a candidate source, have been extensively probed using systematic, multi-wavelength campaigns. Here we review the observational highlights from these campaigns and our general understanding of tMSPs.

scholarly journals The Origin of Millisecond Pulsars

1996 ◽  
Vol 160 ◽  
pp. 547-556 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dipankar Bhattacharya
Keyword(s):  
Standard Model ◽  
Millisecond Pulsar ◽  
Millisecond Pulsars ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Additional Argument ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Low Mass ◽  
Pulsar Populations ◽  
X Ray Binaries ◽  
Kinematic Properties

AbstractAccording to the standard model, millisecond pulsars are the descendants of low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXB). The importance of this formation route has, however, been questioned by several authors on different grounds. This paper critically reviews the arguments and assumptions underlying the standard model. The kinematic properties of the LMXB and millisecond pulsar populations are compared, and are found to be compatible. This provides an additional argument in favour of the standard model.

scholarly journals The death line of millisecond pulsars

1996 ◽  
Vol 160 ◽  
pp. 189-190
Author(s):  
Claes-Ingvar Björnsson
Keyword(s):  
Neutron Stars ◽  
Birth Rate ◽  
Large Fraction ◽  
Millisecond Pulsars ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Low Mass

AbstractThe distribution of millisecond pulsars, just as normal pulsars, is affected by a death line. Since a large fraction of millisecond pulsars lie close to the derived death line, a significant number of neutron stars may exist which are not observed as millisecond pulsars. This makes the birth rate discrepancy between millisecond pulsars and their assumed low mass x-ray binary progenitors more acute.

Low-mass X-ray binary evolution and the origin of millisecond pulsars

1992 ◽  
Vol 385 ◽  
pp. L45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juhan Frank ◽  
Andrew R. King ◽  
Jean-Pierre Lasota
Keyword(s):  
Millisecond Pulsars ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Low Mass ◽  
Binary Evolution
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